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HistoryJul 13, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : leafnode denial-of-service triggered by article request (f7a3b18c-624c-4703-9756-b6b27429e5b0)

2005-07-1300:00:00
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CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.046

Percentile

92.6%

The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100% CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to.
Found by Jan Knutar.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
# Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
#
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# HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
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# 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
#    copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
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# AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
# THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
# PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
# BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
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# WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
# OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
# EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(19177);
  script_version("1.17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1661");
  script_bugtraq_id(6490);

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : leafnode denial-of-service triggered by article request (f7a3b18c-624c-4703-9756-b6b27429e5b0)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"The leafnode NNTP server may go into an unterminated loop with 100%
CPU use when an article is requested by Message-ID that has been
crossposted to several news groups when one of the group names is the
prefix of another group name that the article was cross-posted to.
Found by Jan Knutar."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/leafnode-SA-2002-01.txt"
  );
  # http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2796226
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://sourceforge.net/p/anope/mailman/message/2796226/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.leafnode.announce/8"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46613"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/f7a3b18c-624c-4703-9756-b6b27429e5b0.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9e856f5c"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:leafnode");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2002/11/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/05/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"leafnode>=1.9.20<1.9.30")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.046

Percentile

92.6%

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